Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
Quotes to Explore
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
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I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.
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Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
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Summertime is my favorite time of year in Sandpoint, reason being, Lake Pend Oreille is warm and ready for action.
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This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
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When you look at Google, its job is to find you the perfect web page. There are a lot of cases when you want to know something and a list of websites isn't ideal.
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This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.
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It's so fun to play a villain. I get to tap into a side of myself I thought I never had.
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.
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It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.
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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
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I have no ambitions at all! I have none... seriously. I want to be a good father. I want to be a good husband. I want to be a good son, a good brother, a good family member. I don't have any ambition to direct a film or write a play. I like acting.
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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
